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387080

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date	01/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the revised commutation factors for the police pension scheme will be published.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	5186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>As the Scheme actuary, the Government Actuary will review the commutation factors to maintain the actuarial equivalence required under Regulation B7(7) of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987.</p><p>There is no set timeframe in which such reviews must be carried out. These reviews can be prompted by changes to one or more underlying factors (such as longevity), and can be affected by further changes while they are being carried out. The Government Actuary can, and does, carry out reviews as and when he judges necessary.</p><p>In light of the recent Pensions Ombudsman judgement relating to the case of a retired fire-fighter and the review of commutation factors between 2001 and 2006, the Government Actuary’s Department will be publishing revised factors for that period shortly.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 07/07/2015 15:49:47 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 11377 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

385063

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will issue guidance on the definition of on duty with regard to police officers' widows and widowers pensions.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	3880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>In the Budget on 18 March, the Chancellor announced that widows, widowers and surviving civil partners of police officers who have died on duty in England and Wales will no longer lose their survivors’ benefits in future if they remarry, form a civil partnership or cohabit. These pensions will not be re-instated for those who have already lost them through remarriage or cohabitation, though current rules already allow re-instatement if the 'new' relationship ends.</p><p>Changes will be limited to those deaths which have occurred whilst on duty. The Home Office will consult the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales (PABEW) shortly on proposals to implement this change and this will include the definition of “on duty”.</p><p>As policing is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and Scotland, the Northern Ireland Executive and Scottish Government respectively are responsible for the design and funding of police pensions in those parts of the United Kingdom. The Government has a continuous duty to ensure that public service pensions are affordable, sustainable and fair, both for the members of those schemes and for other taxpayers.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 3881 3882 question first answered 30/06/2015 13:54:17 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 9772 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

385067

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on parity between Great Britain and Northern Ireland with regard to police officers' widows and widowers pensions.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	3882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>In the Budget on 18 March, the Chancellor announced that widows, widowers and surviving civil partners of police officers who have died on duty in England and Wales will no longer lose their survivors’ benefits in future if they remarry, form a civil partnership or cohabit. These pensions will not be re-instated for those who have already lost them through remarriage or cohabitation, though current rules already allow re-instatement if the 'new' relationship ends.</p><p>Changes will be limited to those deaths which have occurred whilst on duty. The Home Office will consult the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales (PABEW) shortly on proposals to implement this change and this will include the definition of “on duty”.</p><p>As policing is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and Scotland, the Northern Ireland Executive and Scottish Government respectively are responsible for the design and funding of police pensions in those parts of the United Kingdom. The Government has a continuous duty to ensure that public service pensions are affordable, sustainable and fair, both for the members of those schemes and for other taxpayers.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 3880 3881 question first answered 30/06/2015 13:54:18 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 9761 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

385068

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on pensions for police officers' widows and widowers; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	3881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>In the Budget on 18 March, the Chancellor announced that widows, widowers and surviving civil partners of police officers who have died on duty in England and Wales will no longer lose their survivors’ benefits in future if they remarry, form a civil partnership or cohabit. These pensions will not be re-instated for those who have already lost them through remarriage or cohabitation, though current rules already allow re-instatement if the 'new' relationship ends.</p><p>Changes will be limited to those deaths which have occurred whilst on duty. The Home Office will consult the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales (PABEW) shortly on proposals to implement this change and this will include the definition of “on duty”.</p><p>As policing is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and Scotland, the Northern Ireland Executive and Scottish Government respectively are responsible for the design and funding of police pensions in those parts of the United Kingdom. The Government has a continuous duty to ensure that public service pensions are affordable, sustainable and fair, both for the members of those schemes and for other taxpayers.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 3880 3882 question first answered 30/06/2015 13:54:17 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 9764 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

228207

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding her Department provided in police pension top-up grants to each police force in England and Wales in each year since 2006-07.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Mr Stewart Jackson
uin	228167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Police pensions are funded by each police force paying employer and officer contributions into a separate account. These funds are then used to pay current police pensions.<br><br>Where the income into the police force’s pensions account is not sufficient to meet the cash cost of pensions being paid to retired officers, this is topped up by Home Office grant. <br><br>A breakdown across all forces is not available immediately. However, in total* the Home Office has provided the following top-up funding as follows:<br><br>• 2006/07 - £291million<br>• 2007/08 - £352million<br>• 2008/09 - £630million<br>• 2009/10 - £639 million<br>• 2010/11 - £721 million<br>• 2011/12 - £1,064 million<br>• 2012/13 - £1,218 million<br>• 2013/14 - £1,291million**<br>• 2014/15 - £1,441million***<br><br>* The total figure includes funding for all 43 forces in England and Wales as well as other bodies such as Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.<br><br>** The figure for 2013/14 is based on police authorities' unaudited data only at this stage, and payment of the balance in respect of 2013/14 is yet to be made; the figure provided is the total expected grant requirement once the balance of payment in arrears has been made.<br><br>*** Forecast</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 24/03/2015 15:24:56 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 51782 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough